Our Investment Banking experts bring specific industry, regional and product expertise to each client, advancing Pytheas' industry leadership in devising and executing the most innovative, customized answers to the most challenging issues in the global marketplace.

Investment Banking

Pytheas' Investment Banking Advisory works hand in hand with corporations, institutions and governments to provide the best solutions for each of our clients' needs. Our experts bring specific industry, regional and product expertise to each client, advancing Pytheas' industry leadership in devising and executing the most innovative, customized answers to the most challenging issues in the emerging market marketplace.

While some financial institutions may be better capitalized than before the crisis (or any crisis), shareholder returns for bank stocks will always be under intense pressure as the result of the loss of proprietary trading revenue, increasing regulation, higher administrative costs to implement the additional regulation and the movement of many derivatives to exchanges. Moreover, banks are constantly divesting assets in an attempt to bolster capital and appease regulators.

Elevated stress in funding markets (a key threat especially to the Eurozone banks) combined with the need for the financial sector in general to deleverage (in Europe, not just in the peripheral economies but also Italy, UK and France) creates the need of the banking sector to recapitalize and seek external financial advice and capital. Restructuring (financial and organizational), consolidation and M&A will continue to see a surge and the markets need a solutions provider, such as Pytheas, which not only understands the market key components but possesses in-depth knowledge and ability to facilitate change efficiently.

All companies are affected by changes in the global banking system as new risk weights drive a wedge between investment grade and non-investment grade credits; Pytheas recommends that companies should actively consider capital market alternatives to bank capital wherever feasible.

Companies need to assess for instance the strategic implications of Europe entering negative growth territory for the next two years or more (with firms making worst-case contingency plans covering liquidity, access to funding, FX risk, supply chain pressure and strategic capital deployment).

As capital expenditures remain subdued – a result of market uncertainty – stronger companies should consider alternative uses for this excess liquidity, such as share buybacks.

Moreover, the potential to unlock value through financial restructuring is of utmost importance – streamlining business models by separating underperforming or non-core businesses through spin-offs, split-offs or divestitures.

Connecting people, ideas and capital, we aim to be our clients' first choice for achieving financial aspirations!

Did you know?

that Pytheas through its Soil Water + Life Solutions is probably the only entity world wide that can provide a-no-chimney-no-landfill-solution for the treatment of municipal solid and liquid waste?

that recycling steel saves 75% of the energy that would be used to create steel from raw materials, enough to power 18 million homes?

that the revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue derived from movies, cruse ships, recorded music, theme parks and spectator sports combined?

that Pytheas has presence in 41 countries?

that of all the restaurants that are opened, 90% of them fail in the first year and of the remaining ones that survive, 90% of those fail in the second year?

that in a lifetime the average European or North American will discard more than 600 times his or her adult weight in garbage and about a ton of trash per person per year?

that Confucius about 2,500 years ago argued that the government should not compete for profit with the people, as it would only result to the exploitation of the population?

that every year, Americans buy more than 100 million cell phones, yet fewer than 20% of old cell phones are recycled and that recycling just a million cell phones reduces greenhouse gas emissions equal to removing 1,368 cars off the road for a full year?

that the Boeotian Hesiod about 3000 years ago theorized on the entrepreneurship typical of the market (an early laissez-faire), identifying the effects of government debasement of the coinage, which causes a decrease in its purchasing power (think Adam Smith, Keynes and post Keynes), arguing about the importance of competition and the importance of justice and the law in order to foster order and harmony in society?

that Pytheas the ancient Greek explorer, mathematician, astronomer and navigator must have travelled to the American continent at the time of Alexander the Great?